Emergency fuel, oil, and water attachment for motor vehicles



J. LBARTOLI. EMERGENCY FUEL OIL; AND WATEB ATT-ACHMENT FOR MOTOR VEHICLES.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 13, 1921. v

Patented Jan. 31, 1922 INVENTOR. Jae i]. Barloli BYQ g ATTORNEY UNITED STATES PQ IENT OFFICE.

JOE J. BARTOLI, OF STOCKTON, CALIFORNIA.

EMERGENCY FUEL, 011,, AND WATER ATTACHMENT'FOR Moron VEHICLES. j

Specification of Letters Ifat'ent.

Application filed Hay 13,1921. Serial No. 469,331.

To all whom it may concern."

Be it known that I, JOE J. BARroLI, a citizent of the United States, residing at Stockton, county of San Joaquin, State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Emer ency Fuel, Oil,

and Water Attachments for 'Iotor Vehicles;

and I do declare the following to be a full,

clear, and exact description of the same, ref-.

devices for providing emergency supplies of the three essentials necessary in the operation of motor cars, namely, fuel, oil, and Water, the principal object of my invention being to provide a device in the form of a tank to contain the three liquids mentioned, and a system of piping leading from the tank to the various permanent supplies the control valve for each fluid being located within easy reach of the driver of the car from his seat.

Another object is to provide for air pressure means to constantly act on the emergency supplies, so that the tank containing the same may be located anywhere on the car, with the assurance that the liquids, when the control valves are opened, 'will flow to their respective points to replenish the depleted supplies of the engine. A further object is to provide a system of this character in which the only parts which need be visible are the control valves and I provide, the engine may over the parts immedi tely adjacent thereto.

The advantage of such a system are thought to'be obvious, but will be pointed out briefly, the only necessity for its successful operation being of course to see that the tank is filled and the pressure acting thereon before starting on a-trip.

Besides the carelessness or thoughtlessness of some people which renders them liable to start out without seeing to their supplies, there is always the possibility of a leak developing on the way, and which may cause the rapid exhaustion of any one of the vital fluids mentioned.

No one can foresee such an occurrence, nor can the leaks usually be repaired on the road, so that without an emergency suplply such as bearings freeze and become ruined through eat, or the Pat ente d- Jafi.'31, 1922.

lack of oil, or if the gasoline is exhausted,

the car must be towed to the'nearest supply station.

A further object of the invention is to pro-, duce a simple and inexpensive device and yet one which will be exceedingly effective for. the purposes which it is designed. 1

These objects I accomplish by means 0 such structure and relative arrangement of partsas will fully appear by a perusalof the following specification and claims.

In the drawings similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several views.

Fig. 1 is a side elevation in outline of a installed thereon. 7

Fig. 2 is top plan view thereof. I

Fig,.;3 is a sectional view of the emergency-supply tank. 7

Referrlng now more particularly to the characters of reference onthe drawings, the numeral 1' denotes a suitably sized tank, which may be installed under the rear seat of the car, or any place where it isnot in the way, and yet is readily accessible.

'70 motor car, showing, my improved system The tank is divided by partitions 2 into compartments 3, 4, 5 and 6, for oil, gasoline,

.water and air, though of course in the case of an air cooled car (such as the Franklin) the water compartment is omitted.

The compartmentsmay be varied in size.

andto suit requirements, as it will be evi-.

dent that the car will not need as large a supply of oil for instance as it does gasoline, nor yet as much water. I have therefore shown the gasoline compartment as beingthe largest, though of course the proportions as tosize may be varied, as maybe desired. The liquid compartments are fitted. with filler-caps or plugs 7 while the air chamber 6 has an air valve 8, of the kind used on tires, so that an air pump may be attached thereto. A common passageway or bypass 9 leads from the air chamber to the liquid compartments on top thereof and communicates therewith through openings 10, each such opening having a fiap-valve' 11 opening downwardly, so that air pressure 1n any compartment cannot back up into the chamber 6, nor can any liquid spill from one compartment into another with the golting of the car. 1

Pipes 12, 13 and 14 lead from the bottom of the oil, gasoline and water compartments The purpose of the glasses is to-enable the operator to tell at a glance whether the fluid is flowing through any pipe when its valve is opened, as otherwise he would have no means ofknowing when the emergency supply had been drained, and would be merely taking air under pressure through said pipe, which is not only undesirable but would quickly exhaust the air pressure.

The alr in the chamber 6 is compressed to whatever degree is necessary to cause the fluids to flow freely to any part of the car, without depending on gravity, so that the tank may be located at a point considerably 1 lower than the points of discharge of the I fluids into their respective reservoirs.

A gauge 20 maybe fitted onto the chamber 6 to determine the pressure attained.

From the foregoing description it will be readily seen that. I have producedsuch a device as substantially fulfills the objects of the invention as set forth herein.-

While this specification sets forth in detail the present and preferred construction of the device still in practice suchdeviations from such detail may be resorted to as do not form a departure from the spirit of the invention, as defined by the appended claims. Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and useful and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. An emergency liquid-supply system for motor cars including a tank divided into a plurality of independent compartments, one for each liquid and one for air, the latter being adapted to hold air under pressure, and means whereby the air therein may pass into all the compartments but the liquids therein cannot communicate with each other.

2. An emergency fluid-supply system for motor cars comprising independent sources of emergency supply maintained under pressure, a pipe leading from each such supply to the permanent respective reservoir of the car, a control valve for each pipe, and a sight-feed glass in each pipe: ad acent the corresponding valve. I

3. An emergency liquid-supply system for motor cars, including a tank divided into a plurality of independent compartments, one for each liquid and one for air, the latter being adapted to hold air under pressure, and means whereby the air pressure in the above compartment will be distributed equally to the liquid compartments.

4. An emergency liquid-supply system for motor cars including a tank divided into independent compartments, one for each liquid, and one for air, means for admitting air into said latter compartment and maintaining it therein under pressure, a common passageway from the air compartment to the fluid compartments, a pipe leading from each of the latter compartments to the corresponding permanent reservoir of' the engine, and control means for each pipe positioned within reach of the driver of the car from his seat thereon.

5. An emergency liquid-supply system for motor cars including a tank divided into a plurality of independent compartments, one for each liquid; and an air pressure chamber provided with the tank and communicating with all the liquid compartments.

6. An emergency liquid-supply system for motor car's including,a tank divided into a plurality of independent compartments, one for each liquid and one for air, the latter beingv adapted to hold air under pressure, a common passageway from the air compartment to the fluid compartments, and valves opening inwardly of the compartments interposed between the latter and the passageway. a

In testnnony hereof Iaffix my signature.

JOE J. BARTOLI. 

